Favorite Quotes

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do." ~Edward Everett Hale

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart." ~ Helen Keller

"Grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change; courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference." – Serenity Prayer

"Dance as though no one is watching you; Love as though you have never been hurt before; Sing as though no one can hear you; Live as though heaven is on earth." - Souza

"Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to new understandings with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never ever the same." - Flavia Weedn

"Once is awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, Love gives us a fairy tale." - Unknown Author

"Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you have decided to look beyond the imperfections."

"Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance!"

"Life is not measured in the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away."

"Dream as if you’ll live forever, and live as if you’ll die tomorrow" - James Dean

"Do the best you can with what you have and where you are."

"Well behaved women rarely make history!""You must do the thing you think you cannot do"- Eleanor Roosevelt.

"Do one thing every day that scares you." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"Dreams do come true; without that possibility nature would not incite us to have them."
- John Updike

"The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!" - Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States, 1945

"Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened." Dr. Seuss

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life’s realities." Dr. Seuss

Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you only have one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human and enough hope to make you happy.

"I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am pretty, but not beautiful. I have friends, but I am not the peacemaker. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love." - Marilyn Monroe

"There are no regrets in life, just lessons." - Jennifer Aniston

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over; it became a butterfly."
- Anonymous

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined."
- Thoreau

"Shoot for the moon, even if you miss you will still land among the stars."

"Better to be an open sinner than a false saint."

"Wheresoever you go, go with all of your heart." – Confucius

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." – Eleanor Roosevelt

"Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do ’em all together, I guess." – Elvis Presley

"May you live all the days of your life." – Jonathon Swift

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." – Albert Einstein

"BE WHO YOU ARE AND SAY WHAT YOU FEEL, BECAUSE THOSE WHO MIND DON’T MATTER, AND THOSE WHO MATTER DON’T MIND."
DR. SEUSS

Being positive is not about what happens to us, it’s about how we perceive what happens to us. It is the knack of finding a positive for every negative, and viewing setback as a challenge. The time to be happy is now!

"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference. The Marines don’t have that problem."
- President Ronald Reagan, 1985

"When we can begin to take our failures nonseriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves."– Katherine Mansfield"I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar."-Robert Brault

"Mo Anam Cara" meaning "My Soul Mate" in Irish

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you."

"Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing." Mother Teresa

"God doesn’t require us to succeed; he only requires that you try." Mother Teresa

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

"You shine like a star in your own special way and you add beautiful light to this world."

"Cherish yesterday. Dream tomorrow. Live today."

"To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child a or garden patch… to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
- Emerson

"Drunken words are sober thoughts"

"The unreal is more powerful than the real because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it’s only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend... they go on and on."
- Chuck Palahniuk

"There are still good times to be had." quote from Steel Magnolias

"After all... Tomorrow is another day." - Scarlett O’Hara

"Don’t compromise yourself. You are you’ve got." -Janis Joplin

"Living well is the best revenge." -Courtney Parker

"You never have to do this day again." -Audra

"You don’t have this day to do again." -Audra

"Keep in mind that no matter how cute and sexy a guy is, there’s always some woman somewhere who’s sick of him." -Carol Henry

"I’m only as strong as the coffee I drink, the hairspray I use and the friends that I have!"

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." – Lao Tzu

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where the is no path and leave a trail."
- Emerson

"There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy and a tragedy." - Mark Twain

"You can understand and relate to most people better if you look at them -- no matter how old or impressive they may be -- as if they are children. For most of us never really grow up or mature all that much -- we simply grow taller. O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales." - Leo Rosten

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile." – Albert Einstein

"One shoe can change your life!" - Cinderella

"Life is an occasion...Rise to it. ~Mr. Magorium"

"Be bold in what you stand for and careful what you fall for. - Ruth Boorstin"

"Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me." - Marilyn French

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: IT GOES ON.” – Robert Frost

“It is better to fail in originality that to succeed in imitation.” – Herman Melville

“Be the change you want to see in the world.” – Gandhi

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

To accomplish great things we must not only act but also dream not only plan but also believe.

"Be yourself. Who else is better qualified?" – Frank J. Giblin II

"It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." – Abraham Lincoln

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

“Whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should…” – Max
Ehrmann

“In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.” – Coco Chanel

“Remember Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in heels.” – Faith Whittlesey